2016年的新聞

Ashtan Davis, a familiar face at the Projects Abroad Surfing Project in South Africa, has made surfing history as one of the first people to take part in the country’s first Adaptive Surfing Championships, and being selected for the 2016 Stance World Adaptive Surfing Champs.

Projects Abroad would like to announce that Greg Thomson has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer. Greg assumed his role in August 2016 and has succeeded Dr Peter Slowe, the founder of Projects Abroad, who will remain in the company as the Executive Chair.

Projects Abroad staff and volunteers at the Archaeology Project in Peru have begun excavation work at a new site at the Archaeological Park of Sacsayhuaman in Cusco, through an agreement with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture.

This summer, Projects Abroad will welcome its first volunteers at the new Canine Therapy Project in Córdoba, where we are partnered with Fundación Jingles (The Jingles Foundation). The Jingles Foundation is a privately run therapy center, aimed at improving the health and well-being of its clients with the assistance of the 32 therapy dogs that live at the center.

Fien Ackerman, a Projects Abroad volunteer from Belgium, raised money before starting her Care Project so that she could donate new clothing to more than one hundred talibé children in St Louis, Senegal.

It has been just over a year since Projects Abroad launched a Disaster Relief Project in Nepal to help the country recover from a series of earthquakes. In that time, hundreds of volunteers have built six schools and enabled 1500 children to return to education.

Projects Abroad Teaching volunteers took the opportunity to offer free English classes at a partner school during the summer break to any students who wanted to attend and interact with native English speakers.

World Book Day is celebrated on 23 April and serves as a reminder of the importance of literacy for children around the world. According to UNESCO, an estimated 122 million youth globally are illiterate, and 67.4 million children do not attend school, inevitably leading to illiteracy and further problems later on in life.

Projects Abroad staff and volunteers at the Tropical Dry Forest Conservation Project in Costa Rica recently took part in the annual Meso-American Bat Survey held across Central America, including Barra Honda National Park.

Students attending Yelebe Fana and Berhane Zare, two schools in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, will start 2016 with access to 250 new books, thanks to a donation by Projects Abroad Ethiopia volunteers and staff in November 2015.